"Apparently these are the contributions solicited by Kunz for publication in the great two volume catalog of 1906 [see JSL0663] and pre-published here. Presumably the unsigned articles were written by Bishop."--Gemology, by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 661.

Summary: "...no other work, even now, approaches the above for its wealth of property data; the occurrences section by Washington is richly supplied with bibliographical footnotes of continuing value to students of jades. Bushell's translation seems to be found nowhere else save here. This book, apparently printed in very few copies and probably for extremely private circulation is so rare that I have not seen advertised another copy in thirty years."--Gemology, by J. Sinkankas, entry no. 661.

Partial contents: Jade as a mineral -- Microscopical petrography of jade / Joseph P. Iddings.--Tenacity -- Impact tests on jade / Logan Waller Page.--Compression tests on jade / Ira Harvey Woolson.--Tension tests.--Fracture.--Hardness.--Microsclerometer tests of hardness / Thomas Augustus Jaggar, Jr.--Specific gravity.--Sonorousness.--Tests on the sonorousness of jade / William Hallock.--The chemical constitution of jade / F. W. Clarke.--Inclusions.--On the origin of jadeite / L. V. Pirsson.--The relation of jadeite and nephrite / J. P. Iddings.--Localities and geological occurrence of jade / Henry S. Washington.--Minerals sometimes mistaken for jade.--On jade in China / Stephen W. Bushell.--Yu-shuo : a discourse on jade ; with researches on the history of jade / T'ang Jung-tso, translated by Stephen W. Bushell.--Illustrations of the modern manufacture of jade / Li Shih-Ch'uan.

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